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Standing Rock (Protests ("The Standing Rock movement continues the…
Standing Rock
Protests
"The Standing Rock movement continues the momentum of Indigenous and other women-led social and environmental movements," (TallBear).
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"In the 1990's we created the Tribal Historic Preservation Office for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and I've been working with historic preservation since then," (Estes, Allard)
This helps show the community and support again, that the people at Standing Rock had. The land should be preserved and not put endanger over an oil pipeline!
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Waters in his poem about a Hydra discusses how the government is like the head of a black snake. All they want to do is feed on things and get their way. These protests helped push back against this hydra!
Tilsen discusses though poetry what it's like during the protests. He said he prayed a lot for strength and for the protest to work. He said he was going to stay at the protest, and that he wouldn't die there, meaning he knew these protests would leave a mark and a strong message to the government. Surreal to learn about.
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"We waited for this. Our blood memory yearned for Standing Rock," (Manning).
Manning is basically saying no matter what, they are staying. They were made for this.
"There is constant and pervasive sound of surveillance planes and helicopters," (Latimer).
Having eyes on you at all times for simply protesting what you believe is right is outrageous and a complete violation of privacy!
According to Weisenstein, art played a huge role during the protests. Art helped communicate messages that words couldn't.
The photos in SWSS show how powerful these images can be during the times of the protests, like I've mentioned before. The fist up helps us see what the protests are all about. Unity and hope.
Bruyneel discusses the NotMyPresident movement and how again, the Trump Administration helped pushed more for the pipeline. Again, this is clearly wrong and should not have happened!
NoDAPL / DAPL
"Initially the camps had been established to block construction of Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,712 mile oil pipeline... threatening Stand Rock Indian Reservation's water supply," (Estes).
Helps show how much the pipeline costs, how it would cut through Standing Rock's land, and how it threatens Standing Rock's water supply.
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"There won't be another Standing Rock," (Martin).
This quote stuck with me. It's so powerful. It shows that there won't be anything the same as Standing Rock and also that we need to change the way that we can be treated by the government. They can make bad decisions and we deserve to be able to fight and protest without being treated so poorly.
The Thunderbird game shows us a bird where we can get points by letting the Thunderbird take lightning strikes at oil industries, or we can strike animals to bring them back to life.
The game shows us what the pipelines and oil companies are doing. They could kill animals and poison drinking water!
The YouTube video on the Thunderbird game shows us how it helps indigenous people learn about the oil pipelines and how they can hurt their land.
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The Stand Up / Stand N Rock video has many powerful images in it. The ones of the fists hanging over the crowd with the t-shirts reading, "No Limits," are the most powerful. It shows how the people protesting are not going to give up and they have no limits.
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"Our tribe has opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline since we first learned about it in 2014," (Archambault).
All of these tribes opposed the pipeline, yet the government thinks they can just do whatever they want to the land. This isn't right!
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Andrew Curley discusses how NoDAPL started along the eastern border of the Sioux Tribe, near the Missouri River. Originally it was just lines of protestors until it make NoDAPL. Learning about where all this started is eye opening.
Pasternak discusses how, "the political-economic impact of NoDAPL is enduring and expansive, " (Pasternak). This helps show the effect the protest has had on the government and how these protests left their mark on the government.
Awake shows us what everything was about during these protests. The scary, the truth, and what is still happening to this day with Standing Rock and NoDAPL.
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Friedler discusses how there are now more laws on protests to prevent what NoDAPL became. This is suppressing peoples ideas and rights to protest! This again should not be allowed.
Veterans
In the YouTube video NBC News put up of a veteran talking about standing rock, we quickly see how many veterans went to Standing Rock. We also see how many more wanted to go and how they helped the protest. It showed that even though they served this country, they can tell the country is wrong for putting this pipeline in.
In the explanation of veterans going to Standing Rock video we see how some veterans went to simply stand up for these unarmed civilians, they didn't want them getting hurt by the police. This is extremely courageous and awesome to hear about.
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The interview with Chris Duesing was very powerful. He said that, "We had veterans come from every state in the union." This just shows how people and veterans specially were at Standing Rock for this cause.
"I remember being deeply moved when I read that over 2,000 military veterans traveled to Standing Rock from all over the country in December 2016," (Veteran Service Corps)
This quote from the Veteran Service Corps furthers the point that Chris Duesing said. There were over 2,000 veterans at this protest, that is crazy! These points piggy packing off of each other to reiterate the point of the huge military support is something awesome to learn about.
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"Being a genuine ally involves a lot of self-reflection, education and listening," (10 Ways to be a Genuine Ally to Indigenous Communities)
I added this quote into the veterans section because these veterans were allies with the insidious people at these protests.
"I am here to protect these people from you," (Wood)
This quote is very moving. Wood talks about the protests and what it was like there, but he also mentions how he's a veteran and there to protect the people from the government. Again, showing this is a really big issue and we can't let police push everyone around.
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Tim Scott discussed the conditions that the veterans faced. He talked about not showering, and not eating for days at a time. This is just how committed these veterans were to helping the cause here at Standing Rock. Truly remarkable.
Environment
"It is estimated that the Dakota access oil pipeline would carry over 500,000 barrels of crude oil everyday from the baker fields in North Dakota to Illinois," (DineYazhi).
This quote alone says enough about how much oil could possibly spill into rivers and water sources, putting water sources in danger!!
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"We live in a historical moment marked by grave uncertainty about the fate of our planet Earth," (Dhillion).
Dhillion goes on discusses how the environment is only getting worse here on earth due to things such as these pipelines! This is why we can't keep having these put in!
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In the YouTube video of Prolific The Rapper, he discusses how we protect Mother Earth because its all we got. This message stuck with me because its crazy how people can just think endangering the earth for an oil pipeline is just okay.
McKie's article on the paintings done with the word "water" dripping down someones back is mind blowing. The image really sticks in your head because it looks like if water dies, the people will die.
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Police
Brown discusses how on October 27th, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement officers came into a camp at the Standing Rock protests and arrested 142 people.
"Although it was not the most violent confrontation between the pipeline resistance and law enforcement, no other incident better illustrates the collaboration between federal, local, and state police and private security in suppressing the NoDAPL movement," (Brown)
This is simply worth noting because the police are taking away rights to protest and suppressing a movement. Clearly this is not right!
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"There are persons who delight in pepper-spraying humans," (Plenty)
This quote helps show how police treated people at the protests, which is clearly not right!
"The people of Standing Rock Reservation and their allies have stood solid in prayer to face lines of armed police who used attack dogs, tasers, tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, and sonic weaponry," (Soldier).
Soldier helps us get a better idea of what the police were doing to the protestors at Standing Rock, which is clearly wrong.
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Long Soldier discusses law enforcement through poetry. Long Solider says that he wants the president to acknowledge how he treated these tribes poorly. And how law enforcement treated these protestors. In my opinion, its the least he could do!
"Indian"
"Broad agreement exists that the term "Indian," referring to people in the Americas, originated in Christopher Columbus's mistaken idea that he had discovered a new route to India when he arrived in the Caribbean," (Warrior).
"Since Columbus's errors of navigation and nomenclature, variations on this term have often been used derisively, as in its bastardized form "Injun" or in its contemporary use in Mexico and other places south of the United States to describe people thought of as poor, backward, and racially disadvantaged," (Warrior).
"In light of this, most scholars in Native American studies and many Native people themselves advise against the use of the word "Indian" alone as a noun," (Warrior).
The point thats being made here is that the term "Indian" by itself is offensive towards American Indian people. Yet, ever since 1492, people have been referring to these people as "Indian's." This needs to change!
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"Terms that are not okay for you to say: Indian, savage, half-breed, red skins, eskimo, squaw," (Indigenous Ally Toolkit).
Reading this, and realizing how many times that I've heard people say these terms is eye opening. All of these terms are not okay to use but yet we still do it. This ties together with Ferguson too because we hear improper racial terms being used in todays society way too much. This needs to stop.
"Usually every tribe has their own Naca, and there's many Ithancans underneath him. There's not just one chief, there are many," (Estes).
This quote simply helps the reader further understand how tribes work and how the tribal land is run.
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Who's Land?
"The Supreme Court acknowledged that 'the Cherokee nation [is] to be a sovereign nation, authorized to govern themselves," (Native Studies Keywords).
Native American land is supposed to be sovereign, meaning that Native American land within the United States can have their own laws. At Standing Rock and other Native American land, people are being forced out and forced to do things by the government that they don't want to do. Again, we need to stop this and make changes.
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Throughout the Siege chapter by Estes, the "Cowboy-Indian Alliance" is talked about a great amount. This is so cool to me, it shows how people from different background bond together to fight agasint different things that everyone knows is wrong.
"The first international relationship between the Sioux Nation and the U.S. government was established in 1805," (Dunbar-Ortiz).
Dunbar-Ortiz goes on explaining how the land of the Sioux Nation should be respected and not treated like this. The United States government took total advantage of the treaty they had.
